HRA release: It is not that charges needed to be laid but rather the truth and an apology from the Office of the Prime Minister

It still remains important for the Office of the Prime Minister to come clean about the extent of their role in trying to orchestrate members of Aboriginal Tent Embassy to attend the Lobby restaurant on Australia Day.

For the Prime Minister and her Office to hide the facts, the extent of their role, is an immense slur upon Aboriginal peoples and upon the Australian consciousness – the solicited silence, and the manifest imputations upon Aboriginal Tent Embassy by the Office of the Prime Minister cast a dark pall of aspersions upon the integrity of the Office – and is a scandal-in-waiting that unfortunately may take a decade as often occurs for some of the truth to be supported into the public domain.

Police have announced they will not press charges against protesters who arrived outside the Lobby restaurant on Australia Day while Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott were present.

As a journalist for The National Indigenous Times, I was present at the main entrance of the Lobby restaurant from ‘beginning to end’, and I spoke to the security officers, and I was there when both political leaders were unnecessarily rushed from the restaurant by their security staff and police.

The police investigation into the incident at the restaurant was separate to the already concluded separate Australian Federal Police investigation into who allegedly disclosed the event's details to protesters.

Mr Hodges did not act alone. Two parliamentary sources confirmed this.

The Office of the Prime Minister was extensively involved.

If the Prime Minister and her Office care about the Australian consciousness and in doing what is right they must publicly acknowledge the truth and explain it and in the process remove all the aspersions they have cast and indeed apologise directly and publicly to many peoples.

Gerry Georgatos
Spokesperson, Human Rights Alliance,
Journalist, PhD researcher Australian Deaths in Custody & Custodial Systems
gerry_georgatos@yahoo.com.au
info@humanrightsalliance.org
0430 657 309

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"The federal government source said Mr Hodges did not act alone, that others in his office were aware of what was planned and the intention behind the call, and those who were aware may have included the Prime Minister herself," the page three report, by Gerry Georgatos, says, according to an extract seen by AAP

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